[Phpwebsite-developers] One among many

[Matthew M. <ma...@tu...>]

For those unaware phpBB is working on a CMS front end for their BB system.

Here is an interesting post of what they one person wanted in it along with
some of my comments:
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News

Print News option
Email a friend option
Add a comment about News

User posts news, news wait in a queue, moderator approves certain news,
approved news appear on certain page.

------> So far we do this

The ablity to take user submitted news and point it to be displayed on the
correct page.

Make all the seprate "news" pages (i.e. hardware, software, cars, etc) run
off of phpBB 2.0 user groups.

------> Brian and I talked about this yesterday. Basically we could attach
certain topics to certain groups. Should work in the new version

Ability to add pictures to news posts, resize them etc.

Ability to set the order news appears on the site
------> I would like to see this as well

Polls
(of course building upon the phpbb system) - Part of phpBB 2.0
------> Ryan had some good improvements to polls but we could add more
eventually


Calendar

private and public events

name, time, venue, contact, description, type of event (list of categories
from drop down?), price?

Calendar Archive

Mass delete events by user, group, date, etc.

The calendar is viewable by month, week, and or day.

Permissions to add events to the calendar are given by User Group and
Individual.

Public events are viewable to everyone, while Private events are visible
only to members of the user group it was posted for.

A modulefor the front page that allows you to see upcoming events for the
week and or day. (if your logged in you see your group events here too, if
not you see only public events.)

The ability to make events reaccuring on a daily, weekly, bi-weekly,
monthly, or anual basis. (You get the point.)

The ability to put e-mail notification on an event, and the ability for
users to decide whether or not they wish to recieve event alerts. They
should be able to decide this on a user group level, so they can choose to
ignore alerts from user group #1 but still get all of the alerts for user
group #2.

-------> This is either built in or planned. I will not work on calendar
however until the core is finished.


Downloads

Stats on DLs

Number of downloads, click counting, file size, option of screen shot
display, categories & subcategories, user comments, rate download, top 10
files

-------> I've heard this before, in fact one of you guys or gals said they
might work on this


Forum

Banner Management

number of views, click thoughs, number of views or click thoughs it has
before it becomes inactive

-------> Probably should be a mod. Would like to see this taken out of core
(it won't be in the rewrite) but more flexible.


Language Support

Review System
Movies, Books, CD's etc.
-------> Mod again

User Accounts - A lot of this is already supported by phpBB 2.0

maybe change the theme, as in phpBB, but also change the colors to one's
preference

-------> In the new core. Working on making this VERY secure and flexible.

Online layout customisation (limited to very basic changes, otherwise it
would be far too hard to make)

-------> Bleh Don't like this idea. Not worth the hassle.


Logging in on any page
-------> In the new core.

Site search
Easy interface as to not confuse the user
-------> Done


Templates (Already in phpBB2)
-------> In the new core with plans to make as flexible as the skills of
the developer. Alex is developing a theming mechanism as well I think.


Admin Tools

fully templatable (system already in place )
extensive News-System
combined phpbb/pp User management
Some or all portal functions accessible from an integrated control panel

-------> Again, new core except the BB


(using the "drop in" modular format of the v2 admin panel)

Administrator has the option to set "extra" viewing options

(for when users are browsing the board via the portal-ie. don't show the
page-header, etc.)
-------> In the new core currently

Online content management through forms etc. (another very obvious one),
with bbcode or similar (ppcode)

User Groups - In phpBB 2.0

certain sections of the page available to only usergroups, so a certain
group can get access to certain areas, where another group could have
access to different areas, or even a little overlapping of other groups.

certain groups have access to post a new topic other groups only have
access to post a reply
----> Can be don with the new core but would have to be built into the
module


menu management
Add categories, link on right or left side of site
-----> Block code already done by Mike

File language
Have an option to say a file, article, can be found in english, german,
french etc. basically be able to turn on and off a link that translates the
article (templates?)
-------> A few of you have asked about this and I guess we should pow wow
on it. IMO dynamic language slows down the site. However we have thought
about compromises and new ideas to make languages easier to use.

Statictics
Public stats
topic (thread/news/picture/any item) X times seen, X timesdownloaded, X
times commented, X timesprinted. Top 10 of those, ie.
Private stats
only for admins. Dtailed stats on page views, user's browsers, OSes, etc.
Also a user rating (who did what most).

-------> Mod based




Other Misc Features
Browsing forum from portal (with portal menu bars etc still visible)
Feedback form
also has to mail the admins all feedbacks
(could utilise hidden boards in forum for displaying)
-------> Possible, again mod based


Uploading of attachments, or images, but with per-directory, per-user
access customisation

Ability to run without dependance on forums.

Shoutbox
much like a chat, does not require login, just type your name and msg and
submit. Last shouts appear on the homepage. Nice way for dropping a quick
note for other online members.
-----> Interesting, could be abused but we have some ideas to build abuse
protection into the new core.

User last seen (or last logged in)
a list of 20 (30, 50, 100) users, sorted by time of login, and more
------> Good idea, I will go ahead and implement a time stamp so a module
can access something like this.

Image Gallery
Ability to upload images resize them if need be to create an image gallery
-------> We have 2 galleries I believe. Jeremy is working on the resizing
code I think.

Link System
Ability to add links to a link page, seprated by categories
-------> Yes Web Links must die. Very old Nuke code needs to be put out of
its misery. Any developer that wants to recode this, be our guest.


PDA version of portal
Low Graphics version of portal
--------> Should be theme based, no biggie

Some good stuff overall. Please comment on what you like, what you don't
like etc.

Matt


Matthew McNaney
Internet Systems Architect
Electronic Student Services
Email: ma...@tu...
URL: http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu
Phone: 828-262-6493